802.11n is rated for a maximum bandwidth of 135Mbps and Gigabit Ethernet (as the name implies) is rated for 1Gbps (or 1000Mbps).
If you want greater speed, why not use gigabit ethernet? Just remember that all the devices and cabling must be capable of that speed or you won't actually see that speed.
Yes, CAT 5E is well-suited for gigabit ethernet. CAT 6 will also work just fine.
You would use gigabit ethernet in a LAN where you want speed; otherwise, most LANs run at 100 megabits per second, which is considerably slower.
You would want to move to a Gigabit network. This will require a switch capable of Gigabit speeds, network cabling capable of Gigabit speeds (Cat 5e for example), and a network interface on a computer that is also Gigabit rated. Most modern switches are Gigabit rated (even inexpensive soho switches).
10 Gigabit Ethernet can transmit Ethernet frames at a speed to 10 gigabits per second (10 billion bits per second). The technology has been slowly growing in popularity, having been hindered by its higher price.
It is not a complete necessity to have a gigabit Ethernet switch but it will increase processing speed to 1,000 Mbits per second. Earlier forms of the Ethernet switches were in the 10 to 100 megabit range.
In order for you to achieve gigabit data rates, you need: * A gigabit Ethernet card (as you have) * A gigabit router * Cabling that is of correct length and quality to carry a gigabit signal. If these conditions are not met, the card will drop to the next available transfer rate.
(From: Jean Andrews CompTIA A+ 6th Edition pg. 846) The three variations of Ethernet are primarily distinguished from one another by speed: (1) 10-Mbps Ethernet, (2) 100-Mbps or Fast Ethernet, and (3) 1000-Mbps or Gigabit Ethernet.
Gigabit = 1,000,000,000 bps (bits per second) = 125,000,000 Bps (Bytes per second) = 125 MBps (Megabytes per second (10^3)) = 119.209... MiBps (Mebibytes per second (2^10)) 10 Gigabit = 10,000,000,000 bps (bits per second) = 1,250,000,000 Bps (Bytes per second) = 1.25 GBps (Gigabytes per second (10^3)) = 1.164... GiBps (Gibibytes per second (2^10)) The difference is obvious. 10 Gigabit = 10 x Gigabit or 10:1 Gigabit Ethernet is behind, it's less than 1/4 the speed of USB 3.0. Regardless of availability of 1Gb+ Internet, there are many across the network uses for having 10Gb+ Ethernet. It's standard to have routers 1Gbps wired, and 300Mbps wireless, but nothing above for consumers. You will have to wait.
The 'Ether' part of Ethernet denotes that the system is not meant to be restricted for use on only one medium type, copper cables, fibre cables and even radio waves can be used. Fast Ethernet Network was developed as an upgrade to traditional Ethernet Networking. Fast Ethernet improved traditional Ethernet by increasing transfer rates 10 times, from 10 Megabit to 100 Megabit speed. Gigabit Ethernet Network is an upgrade on Fast Ethernet Network equivalent to Fast Ethernet Networks improvement over Fast Ethernet Network, offering speeds of 1000 Megabits (1 Gigabit) Cisco have a good document with diagrams and a reasonable amount of depth that answers your questions on 10/100/1000 Ethernet. See related link. Ethernet card would be 10Mbps (mega bauds per second) Fast Ethernet card would be 100Mbps. Most ethernet cards sold today are Fast Ethernet or better. Look for the 100Mbps or the 10/100Mbps specification. The only difference between the both is the speed. Hence both cards are basically the same using the same technology except the fast Ethernet card can run on 10/100mb/s, an astonishing speed. Original 10Base2, 10Base5 and 10baseT Ethernet (thin coaxial cable, thick coaxial cable and twisted pair, respectively) specifications offered a 10Mbit/second throughput (data transfer rate). Although 1 Byte is 8 bits, 10Mbits in practice doesn't mean 1.25MBytes/second, because there's some extra information transferred. On average it can be seen as a ~1MByte/second link speed. Then new standards appeared, some of them exotic (like 100VG AnyLan), but the new Ethernet standard was 100baseTX, which used twisted pair (like 10baseT, but with slightly higher quality requirements - Category 5 cable). It has been called Fast Ethernet, as it offered 100Mbit/sec transfer speed, a 10-fold improvement. Usually all the network equipment can talk both 10baseT and 100baseTX (for example network switches have "10/100" ports). But this was not enough - then came a next speed-up: the 1000baseTX, still running on twisted pair, but with even higher cable quality requirements, offering 1000Mbit/s transfer speed, thus called Gigabit Ethernet: 1000 Mega = 1 Giga.
Some common features that high speed digital cameras have include: image quality, LCD touch screen, slow motion ability, USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet and built in SSD.
Coax cable is OK for R.F. up to several gigahertz, over medium to short runs. For data, we went to twisted-pair with 100 megabit Ethernet, and twisted-pair is now used in 10 gigabit Ethernet. So... using Nyquist, you can probably use coax cable up to gigabit speeds over medium-short distances, but I'm not aware of anyone doing it. Maybe try a google search.